Abstract
In this article, we consider and analyse a variant of a functional originally introduced in \[9, 27] to approximate the (geometric) planar Steiner problem. This functional depends on a small parameter $\epsilon > 0$ and resembles the (scalar) Ginzburg–Landau functional from phase transitions. In a first part, we prove existence and regularity of minimizers for this functional. Then we provide a detailed analysis of their behavior as $\epsilon \to 0$, showing in particular that sublevel sets Hausdorff converge to optimal Steiner sets. Applications to the average distance problem and optimal compliance are also discussed.
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